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12 pieces of Writing Advice from famous Authors

Some times we look forward for getting some Writing advice from the famous writers which may help us in improving our writing career.


1. “To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.”    -  Truman Capote

2.  “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”  - Robert Frost

3. “Writing a Book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”  - George Orwell  

4. “There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”  - Oscar Wilde

5.  “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.”  - Harper Lee 

6. We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”Anais Nin

7. “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.”  - Kurt Vonnegut

8. “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”  - Stephen King 

9. "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”  - Jack London

10.  “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is, before all, to make you see.” –  Joseph Conrad

11. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.” –  Herman Melville

     

      12. “Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your 
       own joke.”  -  F. Scott Fitzgerald  


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